Yes, a lot of times it is a pain-in-the-ass to do certain things with a giant lumbering truck. Not impossible, mind, and if it was then maybe the *proper* solution would be to install proper lane control (turning lights etc) rather than have vehicles break the law.
I see the same thing around here, where very large trucks run lights which are sometimes significantly into the red. Yes, it would be a pain to get going with multiple reds in a row, especially on the last light which precedes a fairly steep grade hill, but blowing through a red light is not the solution to this.
How much you can/should juggle really depends on what you're doing, as well. If I've got various processes that require 5 minutes of work and 1h of execution (e.g. they take a long time to "run"), I'm not being very productive by take 1h5m to do task A, then task B, etc. The more likely scenario though is that task A requires periodic attendance in 10-15 minute intervals. Usually I can juggle at least a few of these at a time and pop between them, accomplishing several full tasks within 1-2 hours instead of a single task every 1h.
There's a lot of aspects to both, but in reality I think that a big factor should as to what "side" of the list you end up on would be how you treat non-members or civilians. If you're willing to blow up a lot of civilians just to make a point, or murder anyone who doesn't follow your doctrine then you're a terrorist. If your aim is more to be able to "practice" your doctrine but not affect others, you may be more of a freedom fighter.
That said, I think a lot of the "western" nations seem to fall pretty close to the terrorist side of the page when you look at how they treat civilian collateral damage in foreign countries, especially with the advent of drone strikes.
The federation also has what is pretty much a "non-interference" policy for undeveloped worlds (though this is violated right at the beginning of the second movie in the new series). That would mean that anyone else is out and presumably unaware of the Federation until they reach a certain level of technology, presumably after which they are "starting from scratch" in terms of joining the galactic village.
I would say that "The idea that businesses should actually train the workforce that they need, such as with apprenticeships, sponsoring employees in education on the job, or whatever" is lost on MOST businesses, not just Spanish ones.
Not only that, but Bell just lost their appeal over access to their last-mile fibre. A good day for everyone in Canada (exept Bell shareholders, perhaps).
" I've bought used cars with 20k miles on them that were indistinguishable from new cars cosmetically and in every way practically measurable without disassembly"
You answered your own question in the last part. Yes, a car with 20,000 miles might look new, and be functionally intact. Realistically, you don't know what's happened since it left the lot. It's actually not all that hard to replace certain parts of a car to hide damage from a vehicular accident, but that accident could leave other issues that will cause you pain later down the road, whether it's a core frame component with damage that slows grows over time, or a dent/crease that was well filled and painted but later starts to rust out.
I'm not generally huge on new VS used, but at least with new I have a fairly good assurance that I'm getting a vehicle which is accident-free and hasn't had some form of "tinkering" from stock.
The VPN part worries me more, since there are lots of legitimate uses - even business uses - for VPN's (there are legit uses for BT - such as game updates etc - but there's less of a case than VPN).
I remember being on Bell in the east (Canada) and noticing that whenever I opened up an SSH connection to work my traffic would slow to a crawl after a short while. Not just my SSH traffic, but *everything* else as well was being throttled. If they're going to start slowing up connection just because they *might* be related to P2P traffic, that's shit.
For Torrents themselves, I'd be OK if they're throttled to something reasonable so long as one is still getting decent value. Reasonably though, there should be a trade-off. If you want to throttle my P2P or other heavy traffic, then cut out the data limits for my account. There's no point in having a 50MB/100MB connection if they only shit you can do on it is maybe 15MB max and everything else is throttled, but where I am the "fast" packages are also the ones that come with higher caps. Since I tend towards gaming and streaming of non-HD content rather than massive bandwidth gobbling torrents etc, I'd much rather have a slower speed but bigger cap, but nobody offers that because really they're just trying to offer you the biggest price with the lowest service they can get away with.
Well, I've read news articles fairly regularly about how high-ups are getting taken down, however the problem in general seems to be that they're easily replaces. Hell, we've even traded one terrorist organisation (Al Quieda) for another (ISIS), so I'm not really sure that there's anything centralised enough to take out.
Hell, even if there were mostly gathered together in some small country and you dropped a bomb on the whole thing, that wouldn't solve many of the recent issues as they've been perpetrated by radicalised locals, and not foreign visitors/immigrants.
Actually, one thing I was wondering is how exactly the licensing works. For what I do use windows for, I'd currently rather stay with Win8. However if there is some need to move to win10, I was thinking of just imaging my OS partition for now, installing, and grabbing the license key for future installs (then restoring the image)
Anyone know if this should work or would that invalidate my license on the older OS? Having the image will also be nice in case win10 (likely) blows up with my dual-bootloader config etc.
[Comcast]: Well, obviously I can't do that now. [Laughs.] I mean, it's Sunday afternoon! Nobody's working.
Also known as: by calling you on a Sunday, he has racked up an extra 2-4 hours of billable overtime which I'll definitely add to my timesheet, even though I've accomplished f*** all.
Yeah, and to be frank I've been pretty surprised to see where DOTA is going lately. They have an active "betting" system where you can bet on games, which is heavily advertised with casino-esque characters. Yes, betting doesn't directly involve money, but the tradeable items and background mechanics with such *do*.
I'm surprised nobody at Valve went "erm, are we sure this is legal"
Except you're not the one drafting the bad cheque, that would be the scammer that wrote it.
They might get you for having a debt since the cheque didn't result in money - similar to a bounced cheque - but I don't think it's cheque fraud (not for you, anyhow).
As soon as I post up anything on kijiji (free buy-and-sell) with a phone #, I get texted within the day by all sorts of scammers. Normally it's similar to this sort of thing "oh, I'm buying it for my girlfriend who lives in X." Quite often, there's no overpayment necessary, just a fake paypal transaction (an email that looks like it's from Paypal saying you got cash) or even a real one but from a compromised card/account etc.
Floppies faded out because people stopped using them once better (as in, improved longevity and capacity) media came around. The new media were still physical and inserted into PC's, so they functioned rather similarly although in some cases you were trading magnetic degradation for scratching or failing dyes in the cheaper CD-R's.
Bluetooth is *not* a 1:1 replacement for regular headphones because a) It requires power. That means another device that needs charging, and it can run out in inopportune moments b) It doesn't give the same quality of audio (yes, it can be good, but even I can notice quality loss with BT headphones, usually in the top-end). c) It requires power from the device. Having BT on - especially playing audio - is a drain on your phone's battery
Currently, I keep a pair of decent quality earbuds (the type with a mic) in my bag. They take up a minimal amount of room, and anytime I want to privately listen to music or have a private conversation I can. I also have a bluetooth headset, but I have to keep it charged up, dick around with pairing, etc before I can use it for a call. It's not nearly so small or convenient as my headphones, and while there are now standalone BT earbuds, with small size comes less battery (plus they're expensive).
How about instead of sending cards, the manufacturers send rebate forms (worth 100% of the total price) to the professional reviewers. Assumedly the reviewers are getting some revenue, so they'd only have to cover the gap between card purchase and rebate submission.
That or have a buy-back program for cards used in reviews where the cards can be returned.
My desktops generally don't even *have* webcams on them unless it's deliberately attached for a particular event. My laptop has one built in, but Asus was nice enough to give many models a little sliding plate/door which covers the camera. When you want to conference, just slide the plate off.
Maybe we need an alternative. This brings me to an idea for a new project: a kickstarter of sorts, but for lawsuits! Rather than let semi-anonymous billionaires fund lawsuits against the scummy corps we all hate, we can do so through group funding. It's like a class-action but gets around those pesky EULA clauses forbidding such.
There's still the issue of resale for those who've bought tickets, but a simple solution for that would be to require ID for a transfer of ownership (and maybe even a small cut with a re-print) or that the original owner be present at entry. The mass-buying bots would fail but individuals could still resell if willing to do a bit of leg-work.
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Yes, a lot of times it is a pain-in-the-ass to do certain things with a giant lumbering truck. Not impossible, mind, and if it was then maybe the *proper* solution would be to install proper lane control (turning lights etc) rather than have vehicles break the law.
I see the same thing around here, where very large trucks run lights which are sometimes significantly into the red. Yes, it would be a pain to get going with multiple reds in a row, especially on the last light which precedes a fairly steep grade hill, but blowing through a red light is not the solution to this.
How much you can/should juggle really depends on what you're doing, as well. If I've got various processes that require 5 minutes of work and 1h of execution (e.g. they take a long time to "run"), I'm not being very productive by take 1h5m to do task A, then task B, etc.
The more likely scenario though is that task A requires periodic attendance in 10-15 minute intervals. Usually I can juggle at least a few of these at a time and pop between them, accomplishing several full tasks within 1-2 hours instead of a single task every 1h.
Also known as compiling :-)
Since it's pretty much a fact that you can work longer and harder when you're young
And party longer and harder the night before work, and show up more hung over and less useful.
There's a lot of aspects to both, but in reality I think that a big factor should as to what "side" of the list you end up on would be how you treat non-members or civilians. If you're willing to blow up a lot of civilians just to make a point, or murder anyone who doesn't follow your doctrine then you're a terrorist. If your aim is more to be able to "practice" your doctrine but not affect others, you may be more of a freedom fighter.
That said, I think a lot of the "western" nations seem to fall pretty close to the terrorist side of the page when you look at how they treat civilian collateral damage in foreign countries, especially with the advent of drone strikes.
The federation also has what is pretty much a "non-interference" policy for undeveloped worlds (though this is violated right at the beginning of the second movie in the new series). That would mean that anyone else is out and presumably unaware of the Federation until they reach a certain level of technology, presumably after which they are "starting from scratch" in terms of joining the galactic village.
I would say that "The idea that businesses should actually train the workforce that they need, such as with apprenticeships, sponsoring employees in education on the job, or whatever" is lost on MOST businesses, not just Spanish ones.
Not only that, but Bell just lost their appeal over access to their last-mile fibre. A good day for everyone in Canada (exept Bell shareholders, perhaps).
" I've bought used cars with 20k miles on them that were indistinguishable from new cars cosmetically and in every way practically measurable without disassembly"
You answered your own question in the last part. Yes, a car with 20,000 miles might look new, and be functionally intact. Realistically, you don't know what's happened since it left the lot. It's actually not all that hard to replace certain parts of a car to hide damage from a vehicular accident, but that accident could leave other issues that will cause you pain later down the road, whether it's a core frame component with damage that slows grows over time, or a dent/crease that was well filled and painted but later starts to rust out.
I'm not generally huge on new VS used, but at least with new I have a fairly good assurance that I'm getting a vehicle which is accident-free and hasn't had some form of "tinkering" from stock.
The VPN part worries me more, since there are lots of legitimate uses - even business uses - for VPN's (there are legit uses for BT - such as game updates etc - but there's less of a case than VPN).
I remember being on Bell in the east (Canada) and noticing that whenever I opened up an SSH connection to work my traffic would slow to a crawl after a short while. Not just my SSH traffic, but *everything* else as well was being throttled. If they're going to start slowing up connection just because they *might* be related to P2P traffic, that's shit.
For Torrents themselves, I'd be OK if they're throttled to something reasonable so long as one is still getting decent value. Reasonably though, there should be a trade-off. If you want to throttle my P2P or other heavy traffic, then cut out the data limits for my account. There's no point in having a 50MB/100MB connection if they only shit you can do on it is maybe 15MB max and everything else is throttled, but where I am the "fast" packages are also the ones that come with higher caps.
Since I tend towards gaming and streaming of non-HD content rather than massive bandwidth gobbling torrents etc, I'd much rather have a slower speed but bigger cap, but nobody offers that because really they're just trying to offer you the biggest price with the lowest service they can get away with.
Well, I've read news articles fairly regularly about how high-ups are getting taken down, however the problem in general seems to be that they're easily replaces. Hell, we've even traded one terrorist organisation (Al Quieda) for another (ISIS), so I'm not really sure that there's anything centralised enough to take out.
Hell, even if there were mostly gathered together in some small country and you dropped a bomb on the whole thing, that wouldn't solve many of the recent issues as they've been perpetrated by radicalised locals, and not foreign visitors/immigrants.
Actually, one thing I was wondering is how exactly the licensing works. For what I do use windows for, I'd currently rather stay with Win8. However if there is some need to move to win10, I was thinking of just imaging my OS partition for now, installing, and grabbing the license key for future installs (then restoring the image)
Anyone know if this should work or would that invalidate my license on the older OS? Having the image will also be nice in case win10 (likely) blows up with my dual-bootloader config etc.
What does a movie piracy ruling in the courts have to do with the Occulus DRM policy changes?
Nope. It's
(criminal.wealthAndPower >= victim.wealthAndPower || criminal.bribesSufficient == true)
[Comcast]: Well, obviously I can't do that now. [Laughs.] I mean, it's Sunday afternoon! Nobody's working.
Also known as: by calling you on a Sunday, he has racked up an extra 2-4 hours of billable overtime which I'll definitely add to my timesheet, even though I've accomplished f*** all.
IIRC, compendium stuff is tradeable, just not immediately (usually after the season).
Yeah, and to be frank I've been pretty surprised to see where DOTA is going lately. They have an active "betting" system where you can bet on games, which is heavily advertised with casino-esque characters. Yes, betting doesn't directly involve money, but the tradeable items and background mechanics with such *do*.
I'm surprised nobody at Valve went "erm, are we sure this is legal"
(or maybe they did and don't give a f***)
Money-wise that makes sense, but criminally?
Except you're not the one drafting the bad cheque, that would be the scammer that wrote it.
They might get you for having a debt since the cheque didn't result in money - similar to a bounced cheque - but I don't think it's cheque fraud (not for you, anyhow).
As soon as I post up anything on kijiji (free buy-and-sell) with a phone #, I get texted within the day by all sorts of scammers. Normally it's similar to this sort of thing "oh, I'm buying it for my girlfriend who lives in X." Quite often, there's no overpayment necessary, just a fake paypal transaction (an email that looks like it's from Paypal saying you got cash) or even a real one but from a compromised card/account etc.
Floppies faded out because people stopped using them once better (as in, improved longevity and capacity) media came around. The new media were still physical and inserted into PC's, so they functioned rather similarly although in some cases you were trading magnetic degradation for scratching or failing dyes in the cheaper CD-R's.
Bluetooth is *not* a 1:1 replacement for regular headphones because
a) It requires power. That means another device that needs charging, and it can run out in inopportune moments
b) It doesn't give the same quality of audio (yes, it can be good, but even I can notice quality loss with BT headphones, usually in the top-end).
c) It requires power from the device. Having BT on - especially playing audio - is a drain on your phone's battery
Currently, I keep a pair of decent quality earbuds (the type with a mic) in my bag. They take up a minimal amount of room, and anytime I want to privately listen to music or have a private conversation I can. I also have a bluetooth headset, but I have to keep it charged up, dick around with pairing, etc before I can use it for a call. It's not nearly so small or convenient as my headphones, and while there are now standalone BT earbuds, with small size comes less battery (plus they're expensive).
As in "Nobody F***ing Cares" ?
They've had that feature since inception!
How about instead of sending cards, the manufacturers send rebate forms (worth 100% of the total price) to the professional reviewers. Assumedly the reviewers are getting some revenue, so they'd only have to cover the gap between card purchase and rebate submission.
That or have a buy-back program for cards used in reviews where the cards can be returned.
My desktops generally don't even *have* webcams on them unless it's deliberately attached for a particular event. My laptop has one built in, but Asus was nice enough to give many models a little sliding plate/door which covers the camera. When you want to conference, just slide the plate off.
Maybe we need an alternative. This brings me to an idea for a new project: a kickstarter of sorts, but for lawsuits! Rather than let semi-anonymous billionaires fund lawsuits against the scummy corps we all hate, we can do so through group funding. It's like a class-action but gets around those pesky EULA clauses forbidding such.
There's still the issue of resale for those who've bought tickets, but a simple solution for that would be to require ID for a transfer of ownership (and maybe even a small cut with a re-print) or that the original owner be present at entry. The mass-buying bots would fail but individuals could still resell if willing to do a bit of leg-work.